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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Gaming on ARM is going to have a steep hill to climb until there’s a Proton-esque compatibility layer. Why would I try to use an ARM machine to play games when its library is miniscule and new x64 machines have shrunk the power per watt gap?

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Gaming on ARM is going to have a steep hill to climb until there’s a Proton-esque compatibility layer.

    Or even better: The company developing Windows on ARM, selling ARM Surface devices, one of the biggest game publishers after the takeover of Activision could just release their own freaking games on their own platform. Not even the casual games are:

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Just putting their own games on the platform would be money down the drain if their goal was to make ARM a viable gaming platform (just look at Apple), but games that small are low-hanging fruit, for sure.

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  • simple@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Gaming on ARM is going to have a steep hill to climb until there’s a Proton-esque compatibility layer.

    There technically is: Box64. It needs work but it works on a couple of titles. The problem is more so the fact that Snapdragon’s GPU is really weak compared to what Intel and especially AMD have now so it wouldn’t be viable for games either way.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, that’s what I mean. It needs to be compatible and performant enough to come close to what x64 does even with the extra layer in the way.

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  • Link@rentadrunk.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I thought Windows on ARM already had a translation layer. Does it not work for games?

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• InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Has MS Office made it to their app store?

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